The “Pictures Generation” burst onto the scene in an important 1977 exhibition that defined a new age that embraced photography and appropriation, and threatened the concept of “authorship”. Influenced by Conceptualism and Pop, these artists used appropriation and montage to reveal the constructed nature of images. Their works included photography and film and examined cultural stereotypes in popular imagery. By appropriating well-known imagery, this art challenged the idea of individuality and authorship. They created savvy, critical notions of art while examining a generation of viewers saturated by mass media.